Historic Markers in Illinois

Collinsville, IL · est. 1982

The Mississippian people built a sophisticated urban center of plazas, mounds, and a solar calendar of timber posts. Cahokia was larger than London at the time before declining by 1350.

Springfield, IL · est. 1972

Lincoln bought this Springfield house as a young lawyer and rising politician. He left it in 1861 for Washington, telling neighbors he might never return — and he did not.